Franz Hirt

Franz Hirt

Julius Franz Hirt (born February 20, 1811 in Gera ; † March 4, 1882 there ) was a German judge and politician.

family

Franz Hirt was the son of the government chancellor Johann Conrad Hirt and his wife Marie Rosine nee Cotta. Hirt, who was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination, married Louise Franziska, born in Gera on July 18, 1839 (born March 5, 1814 in Gera; † November 16, 1881), the daughter of master blacksmith and citizen Heinrich Raithel from Gera.

Life

Franz Hirt attended the Rutheneum high school in Gera and studied political science and law at the University of Leipzig from 1830 to 1833 . After two state exams, he became an accessist at the princely city and district court in Gera on June 14, 1833. From July 3, 1833, he was also a notary. On November 6, 1834, he was transferred to the office of the communal state administration as a travel agent, where in 1835 he became the office secretary. From 1838 to 1842 he was an actuary at the joint justice office in Gera-Untermhaus, where he was deputy bailiff.

In 1842 he was elected city syndic of Gera by the city council. From March 1, 1846 to July 1, 1863 he was a criminal judge and director of the joint criminal court / district court Gera. On May 1, 1864, he succeeded the Kriminalrat Karl Friedrich Heinemann as conductor of the criminal court with the title "Rat". He was then director of the Gera district court . From October 1, 1879 until his death he was director of the Gera regional court .

Hirt was the author of numerous legal writings. He was a co-author of the ADB . He published dramas under the pseudonym Bernhard Auinger.

politics

Franz Hirt was, with interruptions, a member of the Reuss younger line of the Landtag from 1851 to 1865 . In this Landtag he was Deputy Landtag President in 1852 and President of the Landtag from 1852/53 and from 1862 to 1865.

Honors

In 1864 Franz Hirt received the Princely Civil Cross of Honor, 1st Class. In 1881 he was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Grand Ducal Saxon House Order of Vigilance or the White Falcon .

literature

• Reyk Seela : Diets and regional representations in the Russian states 1848 / 67–1923. Biographical handbook (= Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Part 2). G. Fischer, Jena et al. 1996, ISBN 3-437-35046-3 , pp. 250-251.